While working on a script I encountered an issue with setopt.  Since I was setting and

unsetting an option multiple times I placed both in a functions to mostly get rid of the

extra typing. But as some may already guessed, that didn't work.

So looked at man zshall. Nothing jumped out. Google here I come. Eventually found this

where Stéphane Chazelas wrote:

(note that zsh only implements local scope for variables and options, not for functions, aliases...)

This eventually got me to "emulate -L zsh" which is what I had at the top of my script. That led

to "local_options". Found what caused the issue.

To the point/question:  Should zshoptions man page have a clear statement at the very

beginning that "options" can have a local "scope"?  "Scope" is only mentioned later in in

three options. This on my part is assuming "scope" is the correct word to use here.

FWIW, the "emulate builtin" references the three options (local_optioon, local_patterns and

local_traps) but only two backreference emulate, local_traps does not.

Thanks for listening.

Jim Murphy